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Replicating GOES GeoColor in Earth Engine: A Winter Solstice Showcase

Earth Engine

GOES

Remote Sensing

Python

December 21st marked the winter solstice—the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. With 15 hours of darkness across much of the U.S., it’s the perfect time to…

Ditch the Boilerplate: Use Earth Engine’s On-the-Fly Landsat Composites

Earth Engine

Landsat

Remote Sensing

How much of your Landsat analysis code is just preprocessing? Cloud masking, filtering scenes, mosaicking pixels—it’s necessary work, but it’s also repetitive boilerplate…